Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look after the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had to be promoted to Joint Principal Agent to look after the party . |
| 2 | Adam craned his neck to look after the others . |
| 3 | But tell me … who did you have in mind to look after the Project ? |
| 4 | Corbett dismounted slowly , ordering Ranulf to look after the horses as he went to meet the chamberlain , who had come out to greet him . |
| 5 | If you can not organize people to come into your home to look after the patient , he may be able to attend a local Day Centre run by the Local Authority . |
| 6 | Professional families , where the mother stays at home to look after the children , would be severely hit . |
| 7 | The thing is though they , they look at it , they always look at it that erm , they earn the money so they can go out and get it , you know , women are n't entitled to anything , they 're just at home to look after the children |
| 8 | We were obliged to open a crèche because we found girls staying at home to look after the babies . |
| 9 | Most countries within the EC , including Germany , Portugal , Belgium , Denmark and Italy , have introduced the concept of parental leave — a period of leave given to either parent to look after the child up to the age of two — in addition to maternity leave . |
| 10 | An integral part of Labour 's plan to look after the coal industry will be the adoption of European proposals for the coal industry . |
| 11 | The husband to have time off work to look after the children , |
| 12 | And if we were to cut further in any significant way , then we would undermine our capacity to look after the defence interests of our country . |
| 13 | Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys . |
| 14 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 15 | That morning , when the doctor saw I had to go with the pirates to find the treasure , he had left the squire to look after the captain , then took Gray and Ben Gunn with him to be ready to help us . |
| 16 | Now have they got a directive to look after the front now or not ? |
| 17 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
| 18 | this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children . |
| 19 | She gave an extra piece of meat to Noah , then told Oliver to hurry up as it was his job to look after the shop . |
| 20 | And , indeed , the need to look after the twins , keeping them busily entertained and happy during the day , had obviously helped to keep both their minds off their troubled personal relationship . |
| 21 | They said they needed to live on site to look after the calves they rear . |
| 22 | If the company is large , there may be a special person to look after the scheme on a day-to-day basis : often this is someone in the personnel department . |
| 23 | A manager who is efficient at plotting an artist 's career is n't always the best person to look after the artist 's financial interests or sort out VAT , tax and National Insurance . |
| 24 | Give people who like gardening a chance to look after the Home 's own garden , perhaps growing their own seeds or vegetables . |
| 25 | She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up |
| 26 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 27 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |
| 28 | When the parents of an illegitimate child separated , the father paid a neighbour £1 per week to look after the child . |
| 29 | Renshaw has returned to work after the birth of her first child and employed a nanny to look after the child . |
| 30 | She told him she would get a friend in the trade to look after the repairs , but when nothing happened Michael got the job done on his own comprehensive insurance policy with AGF . |